A graphic illustration of the comparative rates of growth of

the USSR and the USA.

New type Soviet self-serve

is glimpse of

By JOHN WEIR
PT Staff Correspondent

I see by the papers where
the independent general
stores in Canada, squeezed
by the chains, are going the
way of the buffalo, while the
recent national conference of
the Consumers Association of
Canada was told that soon
shoppers will be carried
around huge stores’ on con-
veyor belts . . . with a spe-
cial apparatus to shake out
the money, I suppose.

There’s something new in
the os line in the

wall USSR, too.

In -Zamos-
tye, which
is Leningrad
way, they
are operat-
ing what
®S they call
* a “People’s
F Store’. The
fact that it’s a self-service
store wouldn’t make it news,
but it is also a bill-yourself
and pay-yourself establish-
ment.

The doors are open, you
walk in, do your shopping,
make out your own bill from
the list of prices, pay your
money, take your change
from the cash register and
go home. That’s all there is
to it.

There are no salesmen at
the counters, no cashiers, no
store detectives to watch the
customers. At the door an
old-age pensioner sits to hear
any complaints (not about
the service, naturally, but
about the goods) and notes
suggestions of what the cus-
tomers would like to have
ordered that isn’t now on the

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shelves.

The People’s Store is man-
aged by a board elected by
the workers of the Grazh-
dansky State Farm in which
the residents of the hamlet
are employed. They say that
at first it was hard to con-
vince people that a “busi-
ness” could be run in such
a manner, but now they. ac-
cept it as the normal way
of conducting trade in a
country that is building a
communist society.

‘Old Doc’ retires with
memories, calendars

“Old Doc” Douglas has
retired. This isn’t really
news because it’s actually
the second time in his long

“career as a practising den-

tist that Dr. R. Llewellyn
Douglas has called it quits.

But this time it’s different.
“Old Doc”, now 79, says he
has put away his dentist’s
chair for keeps. From now
on, the only teeth he’ll touch
will be his own.

Jealous of the reputation
he established during his half
century of practice, Old Doc
has taken his name ‘into re-
tirement with him. There
will be no more Old Doc
calendars with their pretty
girls, their slogans, and their
dental plates, announced at
$40 each,

It was the penchant for ad-
vertising that got Old Doc
into repeated difficulties
with the Dental Association.
He was on the mat a dozen
times but he never gave up;
going stronger all the time.
MADE $40 PLATES

Many observers felt that
the Association disliked Dr.

_ Douglas’s $40 plates more

than his advertising. This is
one field where the fees are
flexible but always in the
high price range and $40 is
regarded as “unethical” be-

“Old Doc’ Douglas

cause it is price cutting.
When the IWA was being
organized in the thirties, it
faced bitter employer opposi-
tion that included black-
listing militant union men.
The Union, at that time part
of the Carpenters and Join-
ers, desperately needed its
own means of transportation
to isolated coastal points.
The idea of a loggers’ navy

was debated and Old
put his name on the note
financed the first of 2
of vessels,

LONG ASSOCIATION

This was only one 4?
of Old Doc’s association
the B.C. labor movement

He backed one bank !

“after another in the &
period of unionism i?
woods.

Despite continued hat
ment by the Dental Ass?
tion, threats to cancel
licence, and- charges of
professional conduct,
Doc refused to give in ®
demands that he stop 24
tising in the labor and P
gressive press.

Now, he has retired,
ing with him his name
reputation, both held i”
regard in British Colum
particularly in labor cirdl

He talks about the oe
ing he’s doing at his hom®
Dogwood Avenue in
-ver and says he’s “79 J
young and still using }
ginal set of teeth.”

Then he _ adds, with
twinkle in his eye, ee
man has a kick in him yet
I may be back in bus
again,”

Nobody would be the |
bit surprised if it happe
not even the B. sa Den
sociation.

Jacques

By JACQUES DUCLOS
(Abridged)

(Member of the French
Senate and member of the
Political Bureau and secre-
tary of the Central Commit-
tee of the Communist Party
of France.) .

e

On July 1, by an over-
whelming majority, the Al-
gerian people voted for in-
dependence in the form out-
lined in the Evian agreement
reached between the Pro-
visional Government of the
Algerian Republic and the
French Government.

A sharp blow has been
struck against imperialism,
and the attainment of inde-
pendence by Algeria opens a
new chapter in the history of
the crisis of the colonial
system.

This does not mean that
the imperialists are no long-
er thinking of saving the es-
sential part of their privileges
while they utilize new me-
thods and negotiate com-
promises with certain ele-
ments in countries that have
gained their independence.
NEO-COLONIALISTS
ACTIVE

What has happened in most

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of the countries of Black
Africa formerly subject to
French colonialism bears wit-
ness to the existence and the
activity of a neo-colonialism
that maintains its economic

interests and continues its
methods of political inter-
vention.

This is certainly the aim of
the Gaullist power, which
expresses the. domination of
the capitalists trust in mat-
ters concerning Algeria.

But all evidence shows
that colonialist manoeuvers,
relatively easy in the coun-
tries of Black Africa where
independence was. obtained
without mass struggle, will
not find such smooth going
in Algeria.

The Algerian people have
gone through seven years of
heroic struggle, and quite na-
turally they will insist on
concretizing their victory in
deeds.

During the period that pre-
ceded the self-determination
poll of July 1, De Gaulle al-
lowed the OAS to multiply
its destructive actions, with
the thought in mind of creat-
ing for an independent Al-
geria a difficult situation
that would be favorable to
the neo-colonialist manoeu-
vers.

-bourgeois

Even if not all the details:
are known as to the differ-
ences between Ben Khedda,
president of the GPRA, and
Ben Bella, its vice-president,
it is known that the latter
opposes the measures taken
by the GPRA, that is, by
Ben Khedda, against the gen-
eral staff of the National
Liberation Army.

- Jacques Duclos

To make clear the reac-
tions developing in the Al-
gerian masses, it might be
emphasized that the news-
paper, El Moudjahid, organ
of the FLN, wrote as follows:

3s . Already the ominous

- customs of the former. col-

Oonial administration are
springing up again ... We
see the danger growing of a
infiltration which

Algeria

French neo- -colonialis™
trying to encourage by d
‘of capital economy 2”
agents... 250

And the idea of th
needed by the Als

people is strongly expe

in the organ of es
youth, “The Voice of you!
which writes:

0
“The condition essenti
the continuation of the wtio®

nomic and social rev?
remains unity, that
which has given the Alé ‘
people its triumph ar
powerful enemy.- aD
through unity will we i,
to maintain the integt™ ,
the territory so dearly
quired.” Co
As to the Algeria? Fl
munist Party, it declan f

efi

an appeal dated Jub gem” |

find a genuine and

Pp
eratic solution to thé,

sent crisis, the Algeria? pute
munist Party will Te su

all its efforts, and wil b

he
port every initiative ori
measure, whatever its; 2 in
whether it be the meet aN

the CNRA, followed by gil

tional Congress ope?
anti-imperialist force®
out exception, or 2 ®
commission of
with patriotic persona
all tendencies, etc -

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